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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
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Surprise Spiral Shape Revealed in The Darkness Surrounding The Solar System
Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...
See how Kochi's spice trade legacy continues to shape this gateway to Kerala's backwaters
Gateway to the canals and lagoons of the Kerala backwaters and to the Arabian Sea, Kochi was for centuries a major hub for ...
Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts: Madeleine Watts takes an elegiac road trip through the American southwest
Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and ...
Lake Michigan shoreline covered in ice amid winter weather. Where to see formations
Winter storms left Lake Michigan covered in ice this week along the shores in west Michigan. Winter storms brought heavy ...
Color-changing creature found ‘calling in wet meadows’ in China. It’s a new species
In a national park of southern China, a color-changing creature with yellowy eyes sat in the damp grass and called out. The ...
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
study team member and principal scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, told Space.com. (The measurement "au" stands for "astronomical unit," and one au is equal to the distance between ...
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NASA supercomputer finds Milky Way-like spiral at solar system’s edge
The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.
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The Mysterious Oort Cloud at the Edge of the Solar System Might Have Spiral Arms Like a Tiny Galaxy
The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.
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Novel research reveals how adversity shapes the developing brain and its connection to future health risks
She and her collaborators set out to investigate this by recruiting adolescents from rural, suburban, and urban communities in Southwest Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia in 2014.
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For Centuries, Indigenous People Lived in These Desert Canyons. Now, New Technology Reveals Extraordinary Details About This Sacred Site
In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...